Selected Writings:

• “ ‘ In C ’ on its Own Terms: a Statistical and Historical View,” in Perspectives of New Music, vol. 49, no. 1

 

• Chapters 13 & 14 from Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, on fascism and race

 

• “Lacan’s Mirror Stage Through Mutual Reference in the Works of Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos,” in ImageTexT, vol. 4, no. 1

 

•  “The Science Non-Fiction of Commander Chris Hadley's ‘Space Oddity,’” in OUPblog

 

• "Say I'm the Only Bee in Your Bonnet: 'Birdhouse in Your Soul' and the Revolution it Signified" (with Philip Sandifer) 2014

 

• “‘Coolifying’ Germany’s Past and Present: Reading the U.S. Popularity of Rammstein’s ‘Du Hast,’” delivered at IASPM-US / IASPM-Canada 2007 Conference 

 

• Review of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, in Popular Music and Society, vol. 30, no. 2

 

• The Musical Semiotics of Timbre in the Human Voice / static takes love's body. Ph.D. thesis. Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh, 2005

 

• “Crowd Noise and the Hyperreal,” delivered at The Art of Record Production, 2005